US Ready to Send 200 More Soldiers to Syria

INTERNATIONAL - The Pentagon on Saturday (12/10/2016) states, the United States will hold as many as 200 additional troops to the Syrian army in military action against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

According to a Pentagon statement, the additional US troops will include special operations forces personnel, trainers, advisers and explosive ordinance disposal team, reported Xinhua.

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, issued the announcement during a speech in the Gulf state, Bahrain, the statement said.

Operation with unique skills will be joined by 300 US special operations troops are already in Syria.


Operat was "to continue to organize, train, equip and ... enable local forces who are motivated and able to fight ISIL," the statement said, citing the words of Carter.

It refers to other abbreviations such militant groups, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The Church Collapsed In Nigeria, Dead Can Range 50-200 People

INTERNATIONAL - Grief over the city Uyo, Nigeria south of post-collapse of the churches in the city that caused "many deaths and injuries".

According to local media reports, as released Agence France-Presse, Sunday (11/12/2016), the death toll could reach between 50-200 people, correcting initial reports 10 people were killed.

The number of deaths due to current events, in a church packed with people celebrating the Mass episcopal ordination.

Reportedly, when the church roof collapsed, hundreds of people were inside the Reigners Bible Church, including the governor of the state of Akwa Ibom, Emmanuel Udom. He was injured.

President Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim, expressed condolences over the accident.

Buhari expressed his sadness to the governor and the people of Akwa Ibom, as reported spokesman, Garba Shehu.

The church was still not completed but the workers were mobilized to accelerate the construction to be completed for the ordination, witnesses said.

A mengatapakan rescue team officials told The Associated Press that 60 bodies had been found.

However, the toll could rise because it was feared they were crushed by rubble and other iron frame.

"Mass regularly taking place - about 20 minutes after the governor came in. Suddenly the roof to collapse on the people," said one survivor

"The governor immediately rescued, but others were not lucky," he said.

In September 2015, 115 people, including 84 South Africans, were killed by a church hostel owned by a Nigerian television evangelist, TB Joshua, collapsed.

Syrian forces pound Aleppo, ISIS Back to Palmyra

INTERNATIONAL - When Syrian forces exert full power to seize Aleppo east of the opposition, the militants ISIS returned to Palmyra, the historic city in Syria.

Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Organization (SOHR), on Saturday (12/10/2016), reported Syrian forces had achieved significant progress in eastern Aleppo controlled by opposition forces.

Some important district in the east side of the city of Aleppo, the capital of the province of Aleppo that once the second largest city after Damascus, was retaken by the military of President Bashar al-Assad.

However, on the other hand, forces the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), it kept surging forward to Palmyra to take it from the Syrian army.

The activists lapanghan SOHR said about 50 soldiers allied with Damascus have been killed in fighting in Palmyra, in the province of Homs, central Syria.

ISIS continued to rush into the ancient city of Palmyra, since Saturday noon, after two days of heavy fighting with Assad regime forces.

SOHR based in London, England, the monitoring and reporting on the civil war in Syria. They said, ISIS has taken control of a main hospital in Palmyra.

Previously they have mastered some refinery and outposts located near the city.

Encouragement extremists in the province of Homs took place nine months after the militants were expelled from the city by the Syrian government forces and allied Russia in an attack called the Syrian military officials as a "fatal blow" to the organization ISIS.

Until Saturday (10/12/2016) night, the Assad government has not commented on the fighting in Palmyra and yet the number of casualties that may be promulgated.

But SOHR, Friday (12/09/2016), said about 50 soldiers allied with Damascus have been killed in the fighting.

In the north, observers reported heavy fighting occurred in several districts in the southeast city of Aleppo, after two weeks of attacks by the military-backed Syrian allies Russia and Shia make the rebel forces scattered.

Several people who witnessed the fighting on Saturday said the rebels did not want to retreat from the eastern sector of the ruined it.

SOHR reported that 24 civilians were killed by government forces since Friday, and said at least nine others were killed due to artillery fire fighters into sectors controlled by the government in the city in the same period.

Bomb Victims Istanbul So 29 People, Penerally Police

HEALTH - The death toll from twin bomb blasts in Istanbul, Turkey, has grown to 29 people with the casualties were police.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, Sunday (11/12/2016), said that there were 166 more people were injured. He also said 10 suspects linked to the attack had been arrested.

Turkish Health Ministry earlier said the bomb attack occurred outside class football stadium after the match two top clubs, namely Besiktas and Bursaspo.

According to Reuters, the first of two explosions, one of which is believed to be suicide, and occur outside the Vodafone Arena stadium, which is located on the banks of the Bosphorus.

Soylu said, a car bomb outside the stadium it was targeting a police bus. Of the 29 deaths that have diidentifikas, mostly police.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the explosion occurred shortly after the game was over it seemed to cause death in large numbers.

"We have witnessed, once again here in Istanbul, the ugly face of terrorism, trampling all shapes and moral values," Erdogan said in a statement released by Agence France-Presse.

Turkish state media said Erdogan was in his residence in Tarabya city, in the outskirts of Istanbul, when the twin bomb blasts.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, "I strongly condemn the killers," he said, as quoted by broadcaster CNN Turk.

15 were killed and tens injured due to bomb Twins in Istanbul

INTERNATIONAL - The heart of Istanbul, Turkey, was rocked by twin high-explosive bombs so that at least 15 people were killed and 69 others injured on Saturday (10/12/2016) night local time.

Turkish Health Ministry said the bomb attack occurred outside class football stadium after the match two top clubs, namely Besiktas and Bursaspo.

According to Reuters, the first of two explosions, one of which is believed to be suicide, and occur outside the Vodafone Arena stadium, which is located on the banks of the Bosphorus.

Minister of Home Affairs, Suleyman Soylu, say, a car bomb outside the stadium it was targeting a police bus. Besiktas is also the name of an area around the stadium.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the explosion occurred shortly after the game was over it seemed to cause death in large numbers.

"We have witnessed, once again here in Istanbul, the ugly face of terrorism, trampling all shapes and moral values," Erdogan said in a statement released by Agence France-Presse.

Turkish state media said Erdogan was in his residence in Tarabya city, in the outskirts of Istanbul, when the twin bomb blasts.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, "I strongly condemn the killers," he said, as quoted by broadcaster CNN Turk.